Chris Lowe

The Pet Shop Boys catalog remaster campaign concludes with the final batch of reissues. The duo’s Behaviour, Very, and Bilingual have all been newly remastered and expanded with B-sides, remixes and alternate versions.

Behaviour, the PSB’s fourth studio effort includes the hits “Being Boring” and “Jealousy” and now features an extended mix of “Where the Streets Have No Name (Can’t Take My Eyes Off You),” as well as the ambient mix of “Music for boys.” The two latter tracks have been remastered and both make their appearance on CD here for the first time.

PSB’s Very from 1993 includes the duo’s hit cover version of “Go West,” plus lead single “Can you forgive her?” This new 2018 remaster also contains previously-unreleased tracks “Falling” (demo version for Kylie Minogue), and a 1992 twelve-inch mix of the aforementioned “Go West.”

Finally, Bilingual, the Pet Shop Boys sixth studio album from 1996 rounds out the third and final wave of the remaster roll-out. This newly remastered version contains the singles: “Before,” “Se a vida é (That’s the Way Life Is),” “Single-Bilingual” and “Somewhere,” as well as previously-unreleased versions of “Discoteca” and “A Red-Letter Day.”

These three final remastered titles are not only well worth the wait, but they’ve have never sounded better than they do on these expanded remastered 2-CD sets. The 2018 remastered versions of Behaviour, Very and Bilingual are also available twelve-inch vinyl LPs. Sample at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/pet-shop-boys/488020

Track listings:

Behaviour:

CD1 – “Being Boring,” “This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave,” “To Face the Truth,” “How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?”, “Only the Wind,” “My October Symphony,” “So Hard,” “Nervously,” “The End of The World” and “Jealousy.”

CD1 – “Can You Forgive Her?,” “I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing,” “Liberation,” “A Different Point of View,” “Dreaming of the Queen,” “Yesterday When I Was Mad,” “The Theatre,” “One and One Make Five,” “To Speak Is a Sin,” “Young Offender,” “One in a Million” and “Go West.”